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“Homegrown”: New documentary on Pasadena urban microfarm
Just got an email from the director of "Homegrown," what looks like a cool new documentary. It's about the Dervaes family, who run a microscopic organic farm in urban Pasadena, California. They live on one-fifth of an acre, and their garden takes up less
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Oprah show torpedos CAFOs, gives props to Prop. 2
As just about everyone probably knows, most of Oprah's Tuesday show was devoted to reporter Lisa Ling's "How We Treat the Animals We Eat" investigation. I don't have cable, and thought I could watch the episode one way or another
Videos posted for Slow Food Nation’s Food for Thought series
Good news for all you folks who couldn't make it to Slow Food Nation on Labor Day weekend, or who, like me, did attend but didn't manage to get tickets to all the events you wanted: Slow Food has posted full, high-quality
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Vertical farms on Colbert Report
Stephen Colbert had Dickson Despommier, a Columbia professor of public health in environmental health sciences and the mastermind behind the Vertical Farm Project, Thursday to talk about highrise farming in urban areas. I'm really interested in this idea and
Apocalypse Cowabunga! The Simpsons on factory farming
I'm close to finishing "Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds," a new book by the fearsomely qualified Claire Hope Cummings. It's
Tagging and cooking: Science in the service of sustainability
The May 20 episode of Quest, the science program on San Francisco's public television station, had two segments that might be of interest to Ethicurean
Shoots — eat and leave
The first people to eat takenoko, or young bamboo shoots, must have been really, really hungry. This special 150th episode of Boing Boing TV features
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PBS’s Independent Lens is broadcasting (and celebrating) “King Corn” this week
The breakout indie documentary "King Corn" is on TV tonight and for the rest of the week on PBS's Independent Lens series. (Find your station and the schedule here.)
“You can almost taste the rose petals”
Food & Water Watch did a funny little April Fool stunt for YouTube, involving some high-end "Potomac Springs" bottled water, as part of their Take Back the Tap
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“Good Morning America” — you’re being cornified!
Thanks to reader Henry for alerting us to the recent appearance of "King Corn" filmmakers Curt Ellis and
“How now, pill-poppin’ cow?”
In the aftermath of the Hallmark/Westland slaughterhouse exposé, henceforth to be known as Downergate, there has been much outrage. Let there now be outraged laughter ... assuming your sense of humor is as sick
“We’re never going to get anywhere if we insist on dividing this country into red fruits and blue fruits!”
PETA's smartest PR move ever may be hiring Free Range Studios, the geniuses behind The Meatrix, to co-produce their latest campaign, "The
Finding common grounds: a review of “Black Gold”
How many cups of coffee do you drink during the day? Now, how many cups of coffee would you guess are consumed every day throughout the world? Not being a hard-core coffee drinker myself – one cup will usually satisfy me, if I even need that – I hadn't given the global coffee trade a whole
Marilyn Manson says “Buy American”
and that "growing takes proteins; meat can be a tasty treat, like fish or human beings" in this surreal video on the food pyramid from the goth rocker: Via U.S. Food Policy AKPC_IDS += "2539,";
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Straight-from-the-farm guerrilla dining in South Carolina
Cool little video about an underground restaurant event in Charleston, SC, put on by Curious Fork/Furious Cork — "a place where the hungry, curious and adventurous gather to share, inspire or
